22 NOVEMBER 1935, page 42

Why We Laugh

Humour. By Stephen Leacock. (Lane. 75. 6d.) Ma. LEAeock is like that diVine who once said freen hey pulpit that lie was going to offer up not a prayer but an explanation. For......

Crime Or Punishment

We Who Are About To Die. By David Lamson. (Scribners. 8s. 6d.) DAVID LAMSON, Sales Manager of Stanford University Press, U.S.A., was convicted of murdering his wife in......

The Farj Eon Family

A Nursery in the Nineties. By Eleanor Farjeon. (Gollanez. 10s. 6d. ) THE reminiscences of childhood are always apt to form the most attractive part of an autobiography, but very......